A "painting" worth 62 million?

[Skybird]

I'm not sorry to say: all I see is just smearing. A real painter's palette may look like this after he mixed some oil or acryl colour on it. Or the floor of the atelier after the shelf with the open paint cans dropped and spilled them all over the place.


https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56495039


I dont understand this world anymore. 62 millions - for smearing.

[Aktungbby]

nuthin new here, Jackson Pollock did it decades ago, (abstract expressionism) and one this works is a key feature featured in Ben Afflect's movie, The Accountanthttps://www.theartist.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/jackson-pollock-convergence-famous-paintings-1.jpg:o

[Platapus]

"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." -Publilius Syrus... or Leonard Nimoy

[stork100]

Check out the recent $69 million sale of this digital artwork:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/beeple-digital-artwork-sale-perspective/2021/03/15/6afc1540-8369-11eb-81db-b02f0398f49a_story.html

https://i.imgur.com/JsKSU5m.jpg

[Catfish]

"Virtual value", breathtaking new concept. Like bitcoin and all that :D

[Platapus]

It is also important to realize that with these types of sales and charities, that the tax laws concerning contributions can often come in to play.



In the US, this type of thing is not uncommon. I would imagine that this painting will end up either in another auction or will be donated to some art museum which can also result in tax benefits

[Jimbuna]

"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." -Publilius Syrus... or Leonard Nimoy

True that :yep:

[iambecomelife]

I appreciate that this is for a worthy cause, but I dislike these artistic trends. I am an amateur artist. Good art has elements of craftsmanship, order, and intentional application of media. Not the relentless pursuit of shock value (for instance, in London several years ago they exhibited paintings that were smears of the artist's feces).

I have a friend who is a professional artist, and he is sick of his paintings losing in contests to submissions that are literally made out of garbage. It's frustrating.

At least most abstract artists don't seem to use their bodily wastes for "artwork", but at the rate things are going - what will artists resort to for shock value 20 years from now?

[Eichhörnchen]

^ I've been a professional painter for most of my life and I agree with you entirely

[Skybird]

So do I! From the bottom of my heart!

Art, that also refers to artistry, craftsmanship, skill. Qualities that are not owned by everbyody. Not everybody can create art, just by random acts. It needs abilities, skills. Witnessing a car accident, is no art, but randim chance. The pattern of the chewing gum you step onto and that spreads on the floor, is no art. Having a chimp hammering playfully on a typewriter, creates no prose and creates no art, no matter how you turn it. Intentionally writing words on a typewriter, if done willfully and skillfully, may result in having created a piece of art.

Arts can not be done by just everybody. Skill and craftsmanship is involved. The random ways of chance and fate, are not arts.

The only art in this is getting nonsense sold for 62 million. And that is the less an effort and art the more stupid the buyer is.

[3catcircus]

"A foole and his money..."